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ah never mind, its a negative exponent….sorry as much has I like math I never liked studying even when I was in school, and I can’t tell the last time I had done a math problem that was above elementary school level.

of course plugging it into a calculator gave me the answer but I wanted to understand how the equation is solved.

ah never mind, its a negative exponent….sorry as much has I like math I never liked studying even when I was in school, and I can’t tell the last time I had done a math problem that was above elementary school level.

of course plugging it into a calculator gave me the answer but I wanted to understand how the equation is solved.

In reality I was thinking to answer: 42

But I don’t believe someone could understand it

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Thanks for the show of work/steps, an yes once I came back to the realization that the ^ to the power of is = to exponents **DUH ** it was a simply google search of how to calculate for negative exponents (previously I was searching for knuth’s up arrow notation and wasn’t getting any hits for how to solve for negative), then my mind was refreshed and it all became clear.